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High Noon

High Noon - KOWS September 12, 2015
High Noon – KOWS September 12, 2015

It’s a new morning…as it always is…and was when we celebrated another Saturday morning in Occidental with Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music with host Dave Stroud. This twice-monthly show opens with a mule kicking in the stall, some barnyard rhythm and then moves swiftly into a blend of 1950s country and big band. Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Chick Webb, Otis Spann, and Merle Travis are just a sampling of performers we’ll hear from. West County living deserves roots music wafting over the airwaves on a Saturday morning in early autumn. Let’s set the airwaves stage with some Otis Spann.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Nellie Lutcher He's A Real Gone Guy Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53 Amazon
3Nellie Lutcher There's Another Mule In Your Stall Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1] Amazon
4Otis Spann Mule Kicking In My Stall Cryin' Time Amazon
5Louis Jordan Barnyard Boogie Jivin' With Jordan Amazon
6Joe Liggins Rhythm In The Barnyard Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers Amazon
7The Andrews Sisters A Man is a Brother To a Mule Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4] Amazon
8Charlie Poole With Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon Man that Rode the Mule Around the World You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2] Amazon
9Ralph Stanley I've Got A Mule To Ride Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection Amazon
10Tennessee Ernie Ford Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster) Vintage Collections Amazon
11Frankie Laine That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version] Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits Amazon
12Ray Charles That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3 Amazon
13Merle Travis & Joe Maphis High Noon Country Guitar Giants Amazon
14Frankie Laine Rawhide Country Greats #2 Amazon
15Chick Webb and his Orchestra Don't Be That Way from CD; orig. Decca 483 Amazon
16Ella Fitzgerald Melinda the Mousle Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41 Amazon
17Annette Hanshaw Who's That Knocking At My Door The Twenties Sweetheart Amazon
18Brother Grady Coffee I'm Working on a Building This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982 Amazon
19Elvis Presley Working on the Building Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
20Murry Hammond In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music Amazon
21John & Jamie Hartford When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland Hartford & Hartford Amazon
22June Carter Cash Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? Wildwood Flower Amazon
23George Jones Worried Man Blues The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music Amazon
24The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2 Amazon
25David Lindley and Wally Ingram Coot From Tennessee Twango Bango Deluxe Amazon
26Ole Ramussen Sleepy Eyed John Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
27Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Oozlin' Daddy Blues Legends of Country Music Disc 2 Amazon
28Cliff Hobbs;Bill Cox Oozlin' Daddy Blues [Album Version] White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
29Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Big Mamou We've Got a Live One Here! Amazon
30Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra Big Mamou Barrell House Boogie and the Blues Amazon
31Bonnie Guitar Noon Train Affair Amazon
32Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips If I Had My Way Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips Amazon

The Dust-to-Digital Label

Dust-to-Digital Label
Dust-to-Digital Label

Our weekly KWTF show is about a label whose chief purpose is the resurrection of that curious mix of ephemera, folklore, ancestry, and musicianship that reveals itself as folk music: whether it be pre-Monroe bluegrass, gospel, blues, or early pop. The label I speak of is Dust-To-Digital and we’ll scratch the surface of some of the great work that they’ve issued since 1999, the year Lance Ledbetter and his wife April open shop in Atlanta, Georgia.Their mission is the same as it was then: to produce high quality cultural artifacts.

Pitchfork magazine put it this way: “Although the folklorists lugging around tape recorders (and the performers carrying on ancient traditions) are worthy of much heralding, it’s equally astounding how essential Lance Ledbetter’s work at Dust-to-Digital has been to the preservation of traditional American folksong. It’s easy to buy and appreciate these sets without realizing that the bulk of the material might have been lost — or, at the very least, tethered to archives, readily accessible only to curious faculty, paper-writing students, and bespectacled researchers — without Ledbetter’s interference.”

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Jimmy Murphy We Live A Long Time To Get Old Desperate Man Blues Amazon
3Tennesee Messarounds Mandolin Blues Desperate Man Blues Amazon
4Lonnie Johnson Death Valley is Just Half Way To My Home Desperate Man Blues Amazon
5Chubby Parker Bib-a-lollie-boo …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
6Ernest Thompson In the Baggage Coach Ahead …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
7Roy Smeck Trio Reaching for the Moon …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
8Lew Childre It Don't Do Nothing but Rain …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
9Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces Amazon
10Sister O.M. Terrell The Bible's Right Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2] Amazon
11Mahalia Jackson God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares Goodbye, Babylon – Introduction [Disc 1] Amazon
12The North Carolina Cooper Boys Daniel In The Den Of Lions Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2] Amazon
13Moses Williams The Train Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1] Amazon
14Emmett Murray She's a Fool, She Ain't Got No Sense Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1] Amazon
15Rev. Johnny L. Jones Huff Construction Company (Radio Commercial) The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta Amazon
16Rev. Johnny L. Jones I Love the Lord The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta Amazon
17Dorothy Lee You Got to Give an Account (feat. Norma Jean, Shirley Marie Johnson & Robert nighthawk Johnson) Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music Amazon
18Babe Stovall When the Circle Be Unbroken Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music Amazon
19Robert nighthawk Johnson Cant No Grave Hold My Body Down Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music Amazon
20Henagar Union Sacred Harp Convention Save, Lord, or We Perish 224 I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings Amazon
21Denson's Sacred Harp Singers of Arley, Alabama Ninety-Fifth 36B I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings Amazon
22Brother Claude Ely Send Down The Rain Satan Get Back Amazon
23Uncle Eck Dunford and Ernest Stoneman Barney McCoy Lead Kindly Light Amazon
24The Allen Brothers Skipping and Flying Lead Kindly Light Amazon
25Georgia Yellow Hammers Mary Don't You Weep Lead Kindly Light Amazon
26Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright Man Who Wrote the Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man Lead Kindly Light Amazon
27Loveless Twins Quartet Lead Kindly Light Lead Kindly Light Amazon
28The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band Ozark Waltz Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
29Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers Just Give Me the Leavings Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
30Wonder State Harmonists Turnip Greens Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
31Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers Jaw Bone Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers Amazon
32Clarence Alexander Disability Boogie Woogie Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
3322 & Group The Prettiest Train I Ever Saw Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
34Henry Ratcliff Look For Me In Louisiana Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
35Willie Washington My Jack Dont Drink No Water Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959 Amazon
36The David Thom Band Windy City That Old Familiar Amazon

Modern Americana in Tradition

Modern Americana in Tradition
Modern Americana in Tradition

We revisit tradition and roots with a number of contemporary performers who honor the American musical heritage with new arrangements, new interpretations, and songs whose lyrics might take on a different meaning in a new time. What was ripe for picking in the first part of the century might not mean all of the same in our world today. We’ll hear songs of love, death, destitution, prostitution, farmer’s work, the sky above and the sea below… You’ll hear Americana releases from as far back as 1971 and we’ll include a number of tracks from this year…the year 2015…with the one thing in common being that the songs performed have stories that go further back and, in most cases, go so far back that they are considered traditional.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Van Dyke Parks/Mondrian Sail Away Lady The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2 Amazon
3The Wailin' Jennys Long Time Traveller Firecracker Amazon
4Rosanne Cash Motherless Children The List Amazon
5Cyd Cassone/Ruthie Foster Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes) Stages Amazon
6Steve Martin Sweet Heaven When I Die Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
7Pharis and Jason Romero Goodbye Old Paint A Wanderer I'll Stay Amazon
8Spuyten Duyvil Stewball The Social Music Hour Vol. 1 Amazon
9Alison Krauss Cluck Old Hen Every Time You Say Goodbye Amazon
10Robert Earl Keen, Jr. East Virginia Blues Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions Amazon
11Adkins & Loudermilk Swing Low Sweet Chariot Adkins & Loudermilk Amazon
12She & Him Swing Low Sweet Chariot Volume One Amazon
13Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again There Will Be a Light Amazon
14Allen Toussaint St. James Infirmary The Bright Mississippi Amazon
15Ashley Monroe The Storms Are On The Ocean Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon
16Uncle Tupelo No Depression No Depression Amazon
17Band Of Ruhks Lost Highway Band Of Ruhks Amazon
18Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men What Does the Deep Sea Say? Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land Amazon
19Mudcrutch Shady Grove Mudcrutch Amazon
20Dwight Yoakam/The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Some Dark Holler Dwight's Used Records Amazon
21Rhiannon Giddens Round About the Mountain Tomorrow Is My Turn Amazon
22Leo Kottke Cripple Creek Mudlark Amazon
23David Johansen Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me Shaker Amazon
24David Johansen & The Harry Smiths Richland Woman David Johansen and the Harry Smiths Amazon
25The Boxmasters Knoxville Girl The Boxmasters Disc 2 Amazon
26Bruce Springsteen Shenandoah We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 Amazon
27Bruce Springsteen O Mary Don't You Weep We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 Amazon
28Charlie Haden Old Joe Clark Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy Amazon
29The Duhks Banjo Roustabout Beyond the Blue Amazon
30Kate & Anna McGarrigle Green Green Rocky Road High On A Mountain Amazon
31Emmylou Harris Bury Me Beneath The Willow Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited Amazon

Hillbilly Fever

Hillbilly Fever
Hillbilly Fever

The sound was simple, fun, and certainly influential. It evolved from ancestral celebrations…finding its groove by the mid 1930s and playing itself out as a popular voice well through the early days of what was termed the Golden Age of Country Music, the 1950s. The entertainment industry collectively shunned the hillbilly term by the mid-50s, choosing the more sedate “Country and Western” moniker and certainly the even more narcoleptic sound of Nashvile going into the coming decade and beyond. Hillbilly music lives today only as splinter and special edge-case Americana. Listen and find out.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2The Delmore Brothers Hillbilly Boogie 26 All-Time Country Classics Amazon
3Sons of The Ozarks Plantation Blues Hillbilly Blues Amazon
4The Lone Star Cowboys Deep Elm Blues Hillbilly Blues Amazon
5Ernest Tubb & Red Foley Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age Hillbilly Fever [Disc 2] Amazon
6Bill Carlisle Bell Clappin' Mama Hillbilly Blues Amazon
7Al Dexter Hi-De-Ho Boogie On A Saturday Night Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag) Amazon
8Al Dexter Pistol Packin' Mama Pistol Packin' Mama Amazon
9Curly Williams Southern Belle Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 5] Amazon
10Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers Bring It On Home To Grandma Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1] Amazon
11Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers I Was A Gambler In Texas Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag) Amazon
12Faron Young If You Aint Lovin' (You Aint Livin') Hillbilly Fever – Vol. 3: Legends Of Nashville Amazon
13W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys There'll Be Some Changes Made Okeh Western Swing Amazon
14Clyde Moody 08 – Nobody's Business The Hillbilly Waltz King Amazon
15Little Jimmy Dickens Hillbilly Fever Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956 Amazon
16Grandpa Jones It's Raining Here This Morning (Remake) Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56 Amazon
17Ocie Stockard & His Wanderers Bass Man Jive Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947 Amazon
18Joe Maphis & Rose Lee Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music) Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast Amazon
19Hank Penny Hadacillin Boogie King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2] Amazon
20Hank Penny Hillbilly Jump King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2] Amazon
21Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band Troubles (Those Lonesome Kind) Hillbilly Fever! Vol. 1: Legends Of Western Swing Amazon
22Redd Stewart Brother Drop Dead (Boogie) Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56 Amazon
23Charlie Gore I Put My Britches On Just Like Everybody Else Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56 Amazon
24Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Bryant's Bounce Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
25Red Foley Choc'late Ice Cream Cone Hillbilly Fever [Disc 2] Amazon
26The Light Crust Doughboys Little Hillbilly Heart Throb Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp) Amazon
27Skeets McDonald Scoot Git And Begone Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
28Jimmy Bryant Jelly Beans Daddy Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies Amazon
29Luke Wills Four Or Five Times Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies Amazon
30Rose Maddox & Her Brothers Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies Amazon
31Robbie Fulks We Live A Long Time To Get Old 13 Hillbilly Giants Amazon
32The Ranch Girls & Their Ragtime Wranglers Hillbilly Jive With a Boogie Beat Can You Hear It? Amazon
33Larry Nolen & The Bandits Hillbilly Love Affair Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album Amazon
34The Osborne Brothers Hillbilly Fever World's Hottest Bluegrass Amazon
35Bill Kirchen Hillbilly Truck Drivin' Man Tied to the Wheel Amazon
36Junior Brown Hillbilly Hula Gal 12 Shades of Brown Amazon
37BR5-49 Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts) BR5-49 Amazon
38BR5-49 Cherokee Boogie BR5-49 Amazon

Songs About Doctors

Songs About Doctors
Songs About Doctors

We go to the theme well once more on Deeper Roots, this time with music that explores the tincture of hadacol, the sick bed blues, the boogie woogie flu, measles, whooping cough, and snake oil…all in a show full of the very best of music about being sick in bed and sending for the doctor from the last century of big band, jazz, country, blues, and rock.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Betty Hutton Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief Hoagy Carmichael. Stardust – 51 Original Mono Recordings 1924-1957 Amazon
3Doc Pomus Send for the Doctor (Doctors) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
4Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Part 1) Having A Good Time with Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns – The Very Best Of, Volume 1 Amazon
5Huey "Piano" Smith Would You Believe it, I Have a Cold (Doctors) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
6Doctor Ross Call The Doctor (Hi-Q 5033, 1963) Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2 [Disc 7] Amazon
7Doctor Ross The Boogie Disease Plug It In! Turn It Up! – Teil 1: Die Anfdnge 1939 – 1954 Amazon
8Roy Byrd & His Blues Jumpers Hadacol Bounce 'Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology [Disc 1] Amazon
9Jerry Lee Lewis Hadacol Boogie A Half Century Of Hits: Rockin' My Life Away [Disc 3] Amazon
10Ray Charles I Don't Need No Doctor BMG Vol. 01 Disc 03 1966-1971 Amazon
11Joan Osborne I Dont Need No Doctor Bring It On Home Amazon
12Artie Shaw Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? The Artie Shaw Story – Disc 3 – Frenesi Amazon
13Benny Goodman Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe Texas Tea Party Amazon
14Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah The Spasm Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937 Amazon
15Walter Smith The Cat's Got the Measles, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937 Amazon
16Bert Mays Snake Doctor Blues Blues From The Vocalion Vaults Amazon
17Memphis Minnie Doctor, Doctor Blues Memphis Minnie – Queen of Country Blues, 1929 – 1937 [Disc 4] Amazon
18South Memphis Jug Band Doctor Medicine Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! Amazon
19Bill Nettles & His Dixie Blues Boys Hadacol Boogie (Doctors) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
20Shorty Godwin Jimbo Jambo Land Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937 Amazon
21Rev. Johnny L. Jones I Don't Need A Doctor (Sermon Excerpt) The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta Amazon
22Boyd Rivers You Gonna Take Sick and Die Living Country Blues: An Anthology Disc 1 Amazon
23Skip James Sick Bed Blues [Album Version] Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Amazon
24Casey Bill Weldon Lady Doctor Blues Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetters Of The 1930s Amazon
25Mance Lipscomb Mother Had A Sick Child Ash Grove 12/6/1964 Amazon
26Mississippi Sheiks When You're Sick With The Blues Complete Recorded Works Vol. 3 Amazon
27Warren Zevon Don't Let Us Get Sick Life'll Kill Ya Amazon
28Willie Nelson Too Sick To Pray One Hell Of A Ride Amazon
29Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks I Asked My Doctor Last Train To Hicksville… The Home Of Happy Feet Amazon
30The Rolling Stones Dear Doctor Beggars Banquet Amazon
31J.J. Cale Call The Doctor Naturally Amazon
32Guada La Habrians/Phil Alvin Oh, Doctor County Fair 2000 Amazon
33Boz Scaggs Sick And Tired Come On Home Amazon
34Otis Redding I'm Sick Y'All Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul Amazon
35Irma Thomas Doctor Feelgood The Story of My Life Amazon

Dark Moon

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

We’re going to go pretty deep this coming Saturday morning here in Western Sonoma County. It’s a mix of old time and tradition with a few themed sets including social sciences, the labor blues, calypso rhythm, minstrelsy, and some special sounds from Ira and Charlie Louvin. Performers this week include Darby  & Tarlton, Riley Puckett, Fern Jones, Arizona Dranes, and a pair each from Ry Cooder and Harry Belafonte. It’s a “Great Dream From Heaven” for KOWS listeners on an August morning in Occidental. Broadcast on KOWS 107.3 FM on August 22, 2015.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Little Jimmy Dickens May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana Amazon
3Ry Cooder Great Dream From Heaven Into The Purple Valley (Remaster 2013) Amazon
4Del McCoury Fireside Chat, Part 1 (feat. Franklin D. Roosevelt) Moneyland Amazon
5Bob Miller The Rich Man And The Poor Man [Rematered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
6Frank Crumit A Tale of the Ticker [Remastered 2003] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
7Uncle Dave Macon All In Down And Out Blues [2003 Remastered] Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series Amazon
8Ry Cooder Denomination Blues Into The Purple Valley Amazon
9Washington Phillips Denomination Blues Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1 Amazon
10Arizona Dranes God's Got A Crown He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes Amazon
11Elvis Presley Swing Down Sweet Chariot His Hand In Mine Amazon
12Fern Jones By And By The Glory Road Amazon
13Dave Van Ronk That'll Never Happen No More Sunday Street Amazon
14Ramblin' Jack Elliott Dark As A Dungeon Best Of The Vanguard Years Amazon
15Emmett Miller That's The Good Old Sunny South Minstrel Man From Georgia Amazon
16Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers Lovesick Blues Minstrel Man From Georgia Amazon
17Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Coal Miner Blues Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
18Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins Hawkins Rag Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3] Amazon
19Darby & Tarlton Lonesome Frisco Line Lonesome Whistle – An Anthology Of American Railroad Song Amazon
20Lead Belly Black Betty Lead Belly's Last Sessions Amazon
21Odetta Shame And Scandal Sings Ballads And Blues Amazon
22Harry Belafonte Mama, Look at Boo Boo Harry Belafonte: Greatest Hits Amazon
23Harley Allen & Dierks Bentley I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers Amazon
24The Louvin Brothers Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar Close Harmony [Disc 5] Amazon
25The Louvin Brothers Keep Watching The Sky Close Harmony [Disc 8] Amazon
26Bonnie Guitar Dark Moon Hard to Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics Amazon
27Skeeter Davis The One You Slip Around With The Essential Skeeter Davis Amazon
28Wanda Jackson Savin' My Love Rockin' With Wanda [US Bonus Tracks] Amazon
29Webb Pierce I Ain't Never 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Webb Pierce Amazon
30The Allen Brothers Skipping and Flying Lead Kindly Light Amazon
31Bascom Lamar Lunsford Kidder Cole The Cornshucker's Frolic Vol. 1: Downhome Music And Entertainment From The American Countryside Amazon
32The Weavers Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvia Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2] Amazon
33Little Jimmy Dickens I'm In Love Up To My Ears Country Boy [Disc 1] Amazon
34Rosie Flores & The Jordanaires I Ain't Never Caught in the Webb Amazon
35Dale Watson & The Jordanaires In The Jailhouse Now Caught In the Webb Amazon
36Los Indios Tabajaras Maria Elena Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's, Vol. 1 Amazon

Back to Bakersfield

Back To Bakersfield
Back To Bakersfield

Deeper Roots heads down the long hot stretch of 99 to California’s Central Valley to visit the country sound that blew in from every direction…starting with the Dust Bowl. Bakersfield was a first step, a way station, for migrant workers coming into California to escape hard times in the Midwest; their treatment by the small minds of fearful communities being little different than those migrants we think of today. “In the years following World War II, Bakersfield had plentiful honky-tonks including the soon-to-be-famous Blackboard Cafe. People drank, danced, and even fought to Western swing music.” The sound of Nashville began to become watered down, losing its appeal to some who thought it had lost a reverence for the heart and soul of working class Country. We’ll hear from Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, Tommy Collins, and Billy Mize and tip our cap to a great book on the subject of the Bakersfield sound and the history of Country Music: Workin’ Man Blues written by local author and Central Valley native, Gerald Haslam.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Merle Haggard Workin' Man Blues Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
3Hank Thompson Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart Most Of All Amazon
4Slim Whitman Song Of The Old Water Wheel Vintage Collections Amazon
5Billy Barton Blues in the Blue of Night The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West' Amazon
6Fuzzy Owen Arkie's Got Her Shoes On The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West' Amazon
7Tommy Collins Untied The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West' Amazon
8Tommy Collins You Better Not Do That Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast Amazon
9Tommy Collins Ernest Tubb 78s One More Record Please Amazon
10Billy Mize Solid Sender The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West' Amazon
11Bonnie Blue Bell & Leon Reach & Chic Adams Band Let's Go The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West' Amazon
12Bill Woods Go Crazy Man The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West' Amazon
13Buck Owens Hot Dog (with Danny Dedmon) The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West' Amazon
14Buck Owens Take Me Back Again Buck Owens Amazon
15Buck Owens Act Naturally The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) [Disc 1] Amazon
16Buck Owens Down, Down, Down Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967) Amazon
17Wynn Stewart Big Big Love California Country Amazon
18Wynn Stewart Another Day, Another Dollar Come On – Gonna Shake This Shack Amazon
19Wynn Stewart You're That Someone Else Come On – Gonna Shake This Shack Amazon
20Merle Haggard The Roots Of My Raising Capitol Collector's Series Amazon
21Merle Haggard And The Strangers Today I Started Loving You Again (2006 Digital Remaster) Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard Amazon
22Merle Haggard; Ray Price; Vince Gill; Willie Nelson Heartaches by the Number Last of the Breed Disc 1 Amazon
23Jean Shepard A Dear John Letter Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast Amazon
24James Burton And Ralph Mooney I'm A Lonesome Fugitive Corn Pickin' And Slick Slidin' Amazon
25Ferlin Husky Heart of Stone 1949-1950 (Warped 498F) Amazon
26Ferlin Husky Freckles and Polliwog Days Ferlin Husky Singles Amazon
27Connie Smith Ain't Had No Lovin' The Essential Connie Smith Amazon
28Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens Streets Of Bakersfield The Best Of Classic Country 80's Amazon
29Dwight Yoakam The Sad Side of Town Tomorrow's Sounds Today Amazon
30Dwight Yoakam Guitars, Cadillacs Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 1 Amazon
31The Blasters Blue Shadows Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2) Amazon
32The Blasters Hey, Girl Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2) Amazon
33The Blasters American Music Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2) Amazon
34Dave Alvin California's Burning Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women Amazon
35Dave Alvin Out in California Interstate City Amazon
36Merle Haggard And The Strangers The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde (2006 Digital Remaster) Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard Amazon
37Wynn Stewart Wishful Thinking Golden Age of Country Volume 2: Hard-to-Find Hits [Disc 2] Amazon
38Buck Owens The Band Keep's Playin' On Buck 'Em: The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967) Amazon

San Antone – KOWS August 10, 2015

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

We’re filling in once more for Mark Hogan and his Bluegrass and Old Time Hour. This week, we’ve put together another two hours of music that spans close to a full century…including Cliff Edwards from 1933, Woody Guthrie, Jimmie Lunceford, and Dave Van Ronk (just to name a few). There will be some themes and schemes built into our sets this evening including the story of Caldonia, the Texas town of San Antone, and heading down a dusty road of a century of America’s music.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Charlie Gracie Just A Closer Walk With Thee Angel on My Shoulder Amazon
3Doug Sahm Chicken and the Bop Best of Sir Douglas 68-75 Amazon
4Charley Pride Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone Superstars Of Country: Good Ol' Songs [Disc 1] Amazon
5Buddy Emmons/Ray Pennington/Swing Shift Band Mama Was the Rose of San Antone Swingin' by Request Amazon
6Tommy Duncan Stars Over San Antone Beneath a Neon Star in a Honky Tonk Amazon
7Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen San Antone Running Wild Amazon
8Les Paul I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way (feat. Bing Crosby) [Remastered] 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
9Bobby Bare Going Down the Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way) fcc warning Darker Than Light Amazon
10Woody Guthrie Going Down the Road (Feeling Bad) Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection Amazon
11Ralph Stanley & Jimmy Martin I'm Going Down the Road First Time Together Amazon
12Doug Jayne Running Lightly Down The Road It Looks Like She's Going on a Trip Amazon
13Leon Redbone Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll Any Time Amazon
14The Mills Brothers Old-Fashioned Love The 1930's Recordings – Chronological Volume 3 Amazon
15Cliff Edwards It's Only A Paper Moon Columbia Records 25th Amazon
16Frank Auburn Orchestra w/Benny Goodman I Found a Million Dollar Baby Vintage Music: Original Classics from the 1920s and 1930s Amazon
17Jimmie Lunceford Cement Mixer Strictly Lunceford Blues In The Night Amazon
18Frank Sinatra I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' Bob Dylan – Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour Volume Four [Disc 2] Amazon
19Ella Mae Morse Forty Cups Of Coffee The Morse Code [Disc 2] Amazon
20Smiley Lewis Cadonia's Party Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Second Series Amazon
21Louis Jordan Caldonia Number Ones Amazon
22B.B. King Caldonia Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan Amazon
23Dave Van Ronk Your Feet's Too Big Sweet & Lowdown Amazon
24Nat King Cole Trio Honeysuckle Rose The Nat King Cole Trio: The Complete Capitol Transcription Sessions [Disc 1] Amazon
25Fats Waller & His Rhythm It's A Sin To Tell A Lie Fats Waller – The Complete Recorded Works Volume 3 – Rhythm and Romance 1934-1936 Amazon
26Ivory Joe Hunter It's A Sin Chronological Ivory Joe Hunter (1950-1951) Amazon
27The Blasters Trouble Bound Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2) Amazon
28The Staple Singers This Train Freedom Highway Amazon
29The Fairfield Four Hallelujah Revival Amazon
30Sam Cooke Trouble Blues The Rhythm And The Blues Amazon
31Maria Muldaur I Belong To That Band Richland Woman Blues Amazon
32Mother McCollum Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951) Amazon
33Emmylou Harris When Halley Came To Jackson Mark Twain: Words & Music [Disc 1] Amazon
34Arthur Alexander Every Day I Have to Cry Some Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter Amazon

Songs of the Century

Songs of the Century
Songs of the Century

The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) produced a list a few years back that they called the “Songs of The Century”. It was concocted based on a questionable set of sampling and was to represent and “promote a better understanding of America’s musical and cultural heritage.” The voting pool was a strange mixture elected officials, school students and teachers, as well as industry professionals. The respondent pool was about 200. The list is woefully inadequate but certainly worth discussing. Deeper Roots will spend this week exploring the top 30 (of 365) and follow up with its own list in a second episode next week. Listen in as we stretch the imagination.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2John Lennon Imagine Imagine Amazon
3Gladys Knight & The Pips Midnight Train To Georgia Singers And Songwriters: 1973- Amazon
4The Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand [Stereo] The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 Disc 1 Amazon
5Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode Johnny B. Goode-His Complete 50's Chess Recordings Amazon
6Lena Horne Stormy Weather (From "Stormy Weather") The Essential Lena Horne – The RCA Years Amazon
7Ben E. King Stand By Me Malt Shop Memories Save the Last Dance for Me Amazon
8The Beach Boys Good Vibrations Endless Summer Amazon
9Tony Bennett I Left My Heart in San Francisco The Essential Tony Bennett [Columbia/Legacy] Disc 1 Amazon
10Otis Redding (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay The Very Best of Otis Redding, Vol. 1 Amazon
11Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through the Grapevine Motown: The Classic Years Disc 2 Amazon
12John Philip Sousa Stars And Stripes Forever The March King: John Philip Sousa Conducts His Own Marches and Other Favorites (An Historical Recording) Amazon
13Kate Smith With Orchestra God Bless America Nippers 30's-Vol.1 Amazon
14Fats Domino Blueberry Hill Out Of New Orleans, Vol. 4 Amazon
15Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Take The "A" Train Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 3] Amazon
16The Rolling Stones (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Singles Collection: The London Years Disc 1 Amazon
17Bobby Darin Mack The Knife Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3) Amazon
18Jimmie Davis You Are My Sunshine Bob Dylan Presents: Cover to Cover – The Originals Amazon
19Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra When The Saints Go Marching In Pete Fountain Presents The Best Of Dixieland: Louis Armstrong Amazon
20Bill Haley & His Comets (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock (Single Version) Rock Around The Clock Amazon
21Glenn Miller & His Orchestra In the Mood The Centennial Collection Disc 1 Amazon
22Scott Joplin The Entertainer compliments of grimriper2u@yahoo.com Amazon
23The Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' Malt Shop Memories: All I Have To Do Is Dream (Disc 2) Amazon
24Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet Take Me Out To The Ball Game www.allaoijr.com Amazon
25Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Overture West Side Story Amazon
26The Andrews Sisters Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection – The Best Of The Andrews Sisters Amazon
27Don McLean American Pie American Pie [Bonus Tracks] Amazon
28Aretha Franklin Respect 30 Greatest Hits [Disc 1] Amazon
29Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 Amazon
30Bing Crosby White Christmas Bing Crosby's Greatest Hits Amazon
31Judy Garland Over The Rainbow That's Entertainment! The Best Of The MGM Musicals Amazon
32George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 20's Amazon

Wake Up! – KOWS August 8, 2015

Deeper Roots on KOWS
Deeper Roots on KOWS

It’s a joy to queue up a century of America’s music every other Saturday morning in West County…live from the heart and voice of West Sonoma County’s KOWS studios in downtown Occidental. A common theme will run through this morning’s show and it’s all about waking up: gospel’s Mahalia Jackson and When I Wake Up in Glory, Roy Milton and the Wake Up Blues, James Brown’s Get Up Offa That Thing … and more!

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Junior Brown Gotta Get Up Every Morning Semi-Crazy Amazon
3Buck Owens I've Got A Tiger By The Tail The Very Best Of Buck Owens, Volume 1 Amazon
4Dwight Yoakam Little Sister Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years (1 of 4) Amazon
5The Mavericks All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down Music for All Occasions Amazon
6Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers Get Up John At The Ryman [Live] Amazon
7The Band Get Up Jake A Musical History [Disc 3] Amazon
8James Brown Get Up Offa That Thing 20 All Time Greatest Hits! Amazon
9Lavern Baker Get Up Get Up (You Sleepy Head) London American Label Year By Year 1956 Amazon
10Jimmy Murphy Wake Me up Sweet Jesus Electricity Amazon
11Mahalia Jackson When I Wake Up In Glory The World's Greatest Gospel Singer Amazon
12Bill Landford And The Landfordaires Trouble Of This World [Album Version] The Gospel Tradition: The Roots And The Branches, Vol. 1 Amazon
13Reverend CL Franklin Wings Of Faith Nuggets Of The Golden Age Of Gospel 1945-1958 Amazon
14Clara Ward Singers Packing Up Somebody Bigger Than You & I Amazon
15Charlie & His Orchestra You're Driving Me Crazy Flashbacks # 6: Hitler & Hell Amazon
16Bob Brozman You're Driving Me Crazy Devil's Slide Amazon
17Big Joe Turner Lipstick, Powder and Paint Big Joe Rocks Amazon
18Smiley Lewis Hook Line & Sinker Smiley Lewis Vol 1 Amazon
19Merrill Moore Yes Indeed (EP Version) Boogie My Blues Away [Disc 1] Amazon
20The Carlisles Nine Have Tried (and None Have Died) (Second Countdown) Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3 Amazon
21Roy Milton Waking Up Blues ABC Of The Blues Vol 30 Amazon
22Ike & Tina Turner Wake Up Don't Play Me Cheap Amazon
23The Everly Brothers Wake Up Little Susie 5 Classic Albums Amazon
24Roy Orbison Ride Away The Soul of Rock and Roll Amazon
25Hank Garland Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) Move! – The Guitar Artistry of Hank Garland Amazon
26The Knockouts Darling Lorrane The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 3 Amazon
27Bobby "Blue" Bland Poverty The Definitive Collection Amazon
28Townes Van Zandt Snowin' On Raton (with James McMurtry) Texas Rain Amazon
29Jonathan Edwards Mole Tomorrow's Child Amazon
30Elvis Presley Somebody Bigger Than You and I Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1 Amazon
31Kim McLean Somebody Bigger Than You and I Boots Too Big to Fill: Tribute to Gene Autry Amazon
32J.J. Cale Money Talks The Very Best of J.J. Cale Amazon
33Roy Zimmerman The Faucet's On Fire The Faucet's On Fire Amazon